I have recently been absorbed by Amit Goswami ’s amazing explanation about why the quantum worldview is inevitable, by now.
While I warmly invite you to read his article through, I’d like to share with you a short introduction to the matter.
Latest findings in quantum physics have shown that science and spirituality are convergent. Besides, what quantum physics is diffusing currently is the same message and knowledge that the most ancient civilizations handed down over the centuries.
Quantum physics has provided two concepts which allow humanity to move from the “I” to the “we” consciousness: nonlocality and locality. Nonlocality describes the ability of objects to instantaneously know about each other’s state, even when they are separated by huge distances, almost as if the universe as a whole instantaneously arranges its particles in anticipation of future events. Thus, in the quantum world, instantaneous action or transfer of information does appear to be possible.
This is in direct contravention of the principle of locality, which establishes that distant objects cannot have direct influence on one another and that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings, a tenet of almost all physics.
Nonlocality suggests that the universe is, in fact, profoundly different from our habitual understanding of it and that the “separate” parts of the universe are actually potentially connected in an intimate and immediate way.
Nonlocality occurs due to the phenomenon of entanglement, whereby particles that interact with each other become permanently correlated or dependent on each other’s states and properties, to the extent that they effectively lose their individuality and in many ways behave as a single entity.
